[Angelino97]

Cultural appropriation? White erasure? Or what?

[Vigilanteman]

The Little Corporal would be flattered, probably.

[griswold3]

Made you look! Hey, over there. Squirrel!

[IYAS9YAS]

If all you think about is the color of your skin, then you’re the racist.

[Lizavetta]

Looks like Sharpton.

[Vendome]

He didn’t do anything remarkable here.

He did a shadow overlay and sketch, then painted by numbers

[Lizavetta]

and with the violence of contemporary urban America, particularly as experienced by young Black men...

Yes, and BY OTHER BLACK MEN.

Don't forget to leave that part out, silly artist person.

[rdl6989]

This is the same person who painted the hideous Obama portrait.

[NorthMountain]

the violence of contemporary urban America, particularly as experienced committed by young Black men male negroes...

[Chad C. Mulligan]

The past controls the future, and the present controls the past. (with apologies to Orwell if I misquoted)

I’d call it stolen valor.

[hanamizu]

If Kehinde Wiley was so intent on showing a black man leading an army, why not do one of Toussaint Louverture, who wore Napoleonic clothes and as an added bonus massacred lots of white people.

It seems that for some blacks, even when they have some actual history, prefer to create imaginary history instead. Cleopatra, a Macedonian woman who lived in Egypt was black. The ancient Egyptians were black.

In Britain they are told that there have always been lots of black people living there going back to Roman times.

While here in the U.S. we are told that our history as a nation only really begins with 1619 and that it was blacks who really built this country.

And then there’s Wakanda, an idea from a comic book from all places.

[discostu]

I think parody. Certainly not erasure since Wiley didn’t paint over the original.

[PIF]

Not to mention the Islamic style wall hanging behind the faux Napoleon, which taken together, symbolizes the Islamic take over of France by North Africans.

[VanShuyten]

What is the design on the red background? It looks like a head of millet.

[HereInTheHeartland]

I’m ok with this.
I’m working right now of a similar painting showing James Brown as a white dude.

[dynachrome]

Folks who are black did a lot better when they had American names instead of something out of a scrabble box.

[coalminersson]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_campaigns_of_the_French_Revolutionary_Wars